Vietnam, Russia foster cooperation in e-government building
Minister-Head of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung held a working session with Russian Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media Konstantin Noskov in Moscow on May 23 to discuss measures to boost cooperation in e-government building.
Minister-Head of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung (second from right) (Source: VNA)
Moscow (VNA) – Minister-Head of the Government Office Mai Tien Dungheld a working session with Russian Minister of Digital Development,Communications and Mass Media Konstantin Noskov in Moscow on May 23 to discussmeasures to boost cooperation in e-government building.
At the meeting, the ministers exchangedviews on the implementation of the two agencies’ memorandum of understanding oncooperation, under which a project on building a national cyber-security systemis considered a special cooperative scheme and has drawn special attention fromVietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
Dung told the host that the GovernmentOffice is exerting efforts to set up a national public service portal,scheduled to be launched this November. The office is also working on agovernance centre of the Government and the Prime Minister, and an IndicatorReporting Information System.
These works need help from Russia’sexperienced experts, he affirmed.
Noskov shared his country’s experience inimplementing infrastructure projects to facilitate the building of ane-government, including an e-document exchange system between differentsectors, an electronic identity system, and a national public service portal.The three projects have been carried out in Russia over the past decade with atotal investment of around 14 million USD.
He said that his ministry is coordinatingclosely with Vietnam’s Government Information Security Committee in building acyber-security system, and plans to cooperate with Hanoi’s People’s Committeein building smart city-VNA
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Minister-Head of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung (second from right) (Source: VNA) 
